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Article #4341Re: Simple observation about Quantum Kitty Cats
From: John C. Baez
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 20:22
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 20:22
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In article <299@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes: >In article <22592@galaxy.ucr.edu>, baez@ucrmath.ucr.edu (john baez) writes: >> >> That may be how philosophy works - pitting argument against argument - >> but it's not how physics works; there one pits model against model. >> Just saying "quantum collapse as a physical local process" won't stack >> up against a well-developed formalism that people have successfully >> used for decades. You need to lay out a precise model of quantum >> collapse as a physical local process and show how one can calculate >> all sorts of things with it. I.e., you have to match the competition. >> OR you have to get ahold of an experiment that shows the existing formalism >> makes wrong predictions. > >But my formalism makes the same predictions of quantum mechanics with >the exception of tests of Bell's inequality. Let's see your formalism - where are the equations? What precisely does it predict in situations where QM violates Bell's inequality? Not words, numbers. Show how to do some QFT-type calculations using this formalism (since QFT combines relativity and QM) - say electron-electron scattering.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) Subject: Re: Simple observation about Quantum Kitty Cats Message-ID: <1992Oct2.202249.21453@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <297@mtnmath.UUCP> <22592@galaxy.ucr.edu> <299@mtnmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 20:22:49 GMT Lines: 21